Hewish, Antony

PUB. DATE

January 2009

SOURCE

World Book Science Dataset;1/1/2009, p1

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Encyclopedia

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Reference Entry

ABSTRACT

Hewish, Antony (1924-) is a British astronomer and astrophysicist, a scientist who studies the physical nature, origin, and development of the solar system, galaxies, and the universe. Hewish won the 1974 Nobel Prize in physics for his discovery of pulsars. He shared the prize with British astrophysicist Martin Ryle, who was recognized for his use of small radio telescopes to ï¿½seeï¿½ into space with great accuracy. Their 1974 prize was the first Nobel Prize in physics to be awarded for astronomical observations.

Hewish, Antony, 1924â€“, British astrophysicist, Ph.D. Cambridge, 1952. Hewish spent his entire career as a faculty member at Cambridge, retiring in 1989. He shared the 1974 Nobel Prize in Physics with Sir Martin Ryle for their pioneering research in radio astrophysics, with special note...

Hewish, Antony, 1924â€“, British astrophysicist, Ph.D. Cambridge, 1952. Hewish spent his entire career as a faculty member at Cambridge, retiring in 1989. He shared the 1974 Nobel Prize in Physics with Sir Martin Ryle for their pioneering research in radio astrophysics, with special note...

The article focuses on British radio astronomer Antony Hewish. Topics include Hewish's research on the Sun's radio outbursts at the University of Cambridge, England under the supervision of radio astronomer Sir Martin Ryle, with whom he won the 1974 Nobel Prize in Physics, colleague Jocelyn...

Results of five intensive radio-astronomical surveys (1C, 2C, 3C, 4C, and 5C) under the direction of English astronomers Martin Ryle and Antony Hewish, during the 1950s, 1960s, and 1970s, at Cambridge.

Bell Burnell, Jocelyn (1943-), a Northern Irish astronomer, discovered the first four pulsars, neutron stars that emit pulses of radiation with a high degree of regularity. Bell Burnell was a graduate student when she made this discovery, which opened up a new branch of astrophysics. The 1974...